everything woman s democrats say this is just political. what do you say? i disagree with that. they provide logistical support. we only have 16,000 border patrol agents patrolling about 1900 miles of border. all the jobs they don t have to do freeze them up to do the job of law enforcement that only they can do. i support it wholeheartedly. rob: let s look at the numbers here, border apprehension in 2018-2017, there has been a distinct increase in 2018 with 400,000 border apprehensions. do you think the president gets the border wall? the president gets the border wall for a variety of reasons. the last congress, judge william, judge caracas and other
trade towers and would have stopped that. what he is doing is alleviating pressure on the border patrol. heather: there has been a 40% drop in border apprehension between 2017, 351,000 in 2016, 615,000, in december alone, 40,516 border patrol apprehensions. what is going on here? that is true leadership. if you look at the rhetoric he has brought to the table the message he has sent to all people from around the world, illegal immigration is solely a problem we share with mexico and that is not true. if you look at the apprehension we have we are arresting people from all over the world, from russia, people from ukraine, from china, from brazil, we are
billion people, would be a better country than it is now or a worse country? not if it s not sustainable. i think that we currently have a level of immigration that in some ways isav merit-based, buts often not. we also have a lot of unaccounted for immigrants that our crossing the border. the levels of immigration specifically at 1.2 million, seemed to be it seems to be a number that has worked for us up to a point.mb when we up to a point were still building, the housing boom when there are still jobs to sustain them. that number at least in terms of border apprehension as we saw today tucker: this is legal immigration, so basically what you re proving is you have no idea, and neither does anybody else.e. people tell me that they are for more immigration, but to what level? > right. tucker: nobody has thought this through because they don t care. and they should care. in the global flow of toigration, they re going change things.
billion people, would be a better country than it is now or he was country? not if it s not sustainable. i think that we currently have a level of immigration that in some ways is merit-based, but is often not. we also have a lot of unaccounted for immigrants that are costing the border. the levels of immigration specifically at 1.2 million, seemed to be it seems to be a number that has worked for us up to a point. it works up to a point when we were still building, the housing boom when there are still jobs to sustain them. that number at least in terms of border apprehension as we saw today just be on this illegal immigration, so basically what you re proving as you have no idea and neither does anybody else. people tell me that they are for more immigration, but to what level? nobody has thought this through because they don t care. and they should cap in the global flow of
if you had a country of half a billion people, would be a better country than it is now or he was country? not if it s not sustainable. i think that we currently have a level of immigration that in some ways is merit-based, but is often not. we also have a lot of unaccounted for immigrants that are costing the border. the levels of immigration specifically at 1.2 million, seemed to be it seems to be a number that has worked for us up to a point. it works up to a point when we were still building, the housing boom when there are still jobs to sustain them. that number at least in terms of border apprehension as we saw today just be on this illegal immigration, so basically what you re proving as you have no idea and neither does anybody else. people tell me that they are for more immigration, but to what level? nobody has thought this through because they don t care. and they should cap in the global flow of